Properties of web application controls

A control is a screen element in your application that you want to test. For example, a button, a table cell, or a menu entry. This topic lists the properties of web application controls:

• Standard properties

• User-defined properties

• Additional properties of individual controls

Standard properties

The following table lists the technical standard properties of web application controls.

The column Control Type shows the control types that the property is available to. You can use these properties in the Value of test steps.

Property Name	Data Type	Control Type
Alt	String	Image (Img) element
Checked	Boolean	All input elements
ClassName	String	All HTML elements
Cols	Numeric	Textarea element
ColSpan	Numeric	Table Cell (TH, TD)
DefaultValue	String	Textarea element
Disabled	Boolean	Textarea element
Disabled	Boolean	ComboBox, ListBox (Select element)
Disabled	Boolean	Button element
Disabled	Boolean	All input elements
Href	String	Anchor element
Id	String	All HTML elements
InnerHTML	String	All HTML elements
InnerText	String	All HTML elements
Multiple	Boolean	ComboBox, ListBox (Select element)
Name	String	ComboBox, ListBox (Select element)
Name	String	(I)Frame element
Name	String	All input elements
Name	String	Textarea element
OuterHTML	String	All HTML elements
OuterText	String	All HTML elements
ReadOnly	Boolean	Textarea element
ReadOnly	Boolean	All input elements
ReadyState	String	HTML Document
RowSpan	Numeric	Textarea element
RowSpan	Numeric	Table Cell (TH, TD)
Selected	Boolean	ListItem (Option element)
SelectedIndex	Numeric	ComboBox, ListBox (Select element)
Size	Numeric	ComboBox, ListBox (Select element)
Src	String	(I)Frame element
Src	String	Image (Img) element
Tag	String	All HTML elements
Title	String	HTML Document
Title	String	All HTML elements
Type	String	All input elements
Url	String	HTML Document
Value	String	All input elements
Value	String	ListItem (Option element)
Value	String	Textarea element
Value	String	Button element

User-defined properties

After you've scanned your application, you can see user-defined properties in the module properties. Property names in Tosca Cloud consist of the original user-defined property name and the prefix attributes_. For example, attributes_MySpecialProperty.

You can use these kinds of properties for verifications.

Additional properties of individual controls

The following controls have additional properties you can use in your tests:

Checkbox

This control has the following properties:

Technical property	Description
Label	Returns the technical property InnerText or Value.
Selected	Setter: Sets the technical property Checked to the desired value and runs the specified FireEvents. Getter: Returns the value of the property Checked.
IsSteerable	Runs the standard validation. In addition, it verifies whether the properties Disabled and ReadOnly of the HTML element have the value false.

HTML documents and HTML frames

These control types are HTML-specific. Tosca Cloud applies the default behavior to control types where you haven't specified a property in the respective Value in your test case.

Control type	Business-based property	Default behavior
HtmlDocument	Title	Input operations: none Reading operations: returns the technical property Title
HtmlFrame	None	None

Image

This control has the following property:

Technical property	Description
Picture	Specifies the path to the corresponding image (technical property src).

Push button

This control has the following property:

Technical property	Description
Label	Returns the technical property InnerText (for BUTTON) or Value (for INPUT).